The Reason of Faith: Or, an Answer Unto that Enquiry, Wherefore We Believe the Scripture to be the Word of God? With The Causes and Nature of that Faith Wherewith We Do So. Wherein The Grounds Whereon the Holy Scripture is Believed to be the Word of God with Faith Divine and Supernatural, are Declared and Vindicated. Together with the Causes, Ways and Means, of Understanding the Mind of God as Revealed in His Word, with Assurance Therein: And, a Declaration of the Perspicuity of the Scriptures, with the External Means of the Interpretation of ThemW. Falconer, 1801 - 322 pages |
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... exercise of reason to affure us of ; for fenfe is irrefiftibly affected with it . But it is like the evidence which the heavens and the earth give of their being made and created of God , and thereby of his being and power . This they ...
... exercise of reason to affure us of ; for fenfe is irrefiftibly affected with it . But it is like the evidence which the heavens and the earth give of their being made and created of God , and thereby of his being and power . This they ...
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... exercise of reafon . If it be faid , that the enquiry is not about what is the work of the Spirit of God in us ; but concerning the reasons and motives to believing that are propofed unto us , I answer , it is granted ; but that we urge ...
... exercise of reafon . If it be faid , that the enquiry is not about what is the work of the Spirit of God in us ; but concerning the reasons and motives to believing that are propofed unto us , I answer , it is granted ; but that we urge ...
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... exercise of reason , or the natural faculties of our minds about them when propofed unto us , then I fupofe it to be most remote from the truth , and that amongst many other reafons ; for these that ensue . 1. On this fuppofition the ...
... exercise of reason , or the natural faculties of our minds about them when propofed unto us , then I fupofe it to be most remote from the truth , and that amongst many other reafons ; for these that ensue . 1. On this fuppofition the ...
Page 90
... exercise . And we all know what fears from within , what fightings from without we are exposed to in this matter . And of this fort are all those atheistical ob- jections against the Scripture , which thefe days abound withal ; which ...
... exercise . And we all know what fears from within , what fightings from without we are exposed to in this matter . And of this fort are all those atheistical ob- jections against the Scripture , which thefe days abound withal ; which ...
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... exercise of it , by the revelation itself in the Scripture , and no otherwife , or , thus faith the Lord , is the reason why we ought to believe , and why we do fo ; why we believe at all in general , and why we believe any thing in ...
... exercise of it , by the revelation itself in the Scripture , and no otherwife , or , thus faith the Lord , is the reason why we ought to believe , and why we do fo ; why we believe at all in general , and why we believe any thing in ...
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Page 180 - But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Page 199 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 194 - Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
Page 107 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 103 - Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the Lord your God...
Page 231 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Page 108 - But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith : 27 To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever.
Page 105 - And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Page 107 - Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in the old time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy ghost.
Page 129 - But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all : and thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.